This is a draft demo version of the opening number from a new music theatre work I'm writing with Justin Werfel.
Sun rise, water flow
Bird cries, cattle low
Clear skies, grasses grow
Bright eyes, breezes blow
Morning in the Village and the day begins again
(Morning! -- hello -- howdy -- good day)
Time to get to tending to the livestock and the grain
(Sleep well? -- not bad -- Feeling? -- okay)
Time to get to weaving and to cooking and to clean
(Hungry? -- you bet -- tired? -- no no!)
Life's a busy cycle that's familiar and routine
(Up yet? -- oh yes! -- Ready? -- let's go!)
For the River is the center and the essence of the Village
And we weave our lives around it and it holds us like a frame
As the seasons and the people pass in a never-ending sequence
The water's always changing but the River is the same.